Deputy 11th Street Building

A row of cars are parked nose-in to the sidewalk in front of businesses in multi-story brick buildings. At the left, can be seen part of the two-story building housing Ensign Omnibus & Transfer Company 221 South 11th Street in Lincoln and a barbershop owned by Samuel F. Woelk at number 217. The center four-story building holding the Spirella Company Inc. at 211-215 has a fire escape running from the top floor to the 2nd floor with the section to the street level pulled up, and, in the decorative triangle at the top of the building, a relief states: Wittman Block, 1888. The three-story building to the right houses Wittman Batteries Company Inc. at number 205.

According to the Lincoln City Directory, 1918, Ira B. Saunders was general manager, and Lenn E. Stacy the sales manager, of Spirella Company Inc. which manufactured made-to-measure corsets. H. Archie Ensign was president and treasurer, and Charles L. Terry the secretary, of Ensign Omnibus and Transfer Company.